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INDIANS AT THE LAKE AT CAMP EDGEWOOD
The Scouts would arrive on Sunday morning and depart the following Saturday morning, all working on merit badges through the courses provided. There were, give or take, a hundred and twenty-five per week. We had a six-week camping schedule*. On Tuesday evenings, the families of the Scouts were invited to come up for a visit, which…
ALLIGATORS AND LOST PILOTS WITH JEFF TATE
There were a few nights hunting alligators and lost pilots with Jeff Tate. I was the rowing and canoeing instructor at Camp Edgewood Boy Scout Camp. Jeff was the archery instructor. He was an excellent archer. I was pretty good, and we hit it off easily. Jeff used to work as a roughneck on the…
BADWATER – MY WORST AND BEST RACE – part 3
part 1, part 2 This was the best of my Badwater experience. It is interesting how things develop. While visiting home, I went birding with my brother Dale. That began my own interest and as I had been hiking, it was easy to combine them both. I did many miles on nearby Mt. Diablo…
BADWATER – MY WORST AND BEST RACE – part 2
part 1, of 3 Badwater is a big event, drawing elite men and women from around the world. Excellent times and great competition are the norm. Much can go wrong, and right. Not unexpectedly, some slower runners will do very well, surprising everyone, and themselves. The final time cutoff was 60 hours when…
BADWATER – MY WORST AND BEST RACE – part 1
The Badwater 135-Mile Endurance Run, “The World’s Toughest Footrace,” is run through Death Valley and halfway up Mt. Whitney in the middle of July. Badwater – my worst and best race. If you make it. I didn’t. I sat on the porch of my cabin at Panamint Springs, sipping on a beer. I had run…
The Red-Eye to Las Vegas | One More Silver Dollar
This is how we came to catch the red-eye flight to Las Vegas. I got a call from a real estate salesman promoting a housing development in Las Vegas. He said that if I could answer his question correctly, and then attend a sales pitch seminar, I would get a ticket for two to Las…
Castles On The Rhine From A River Barge
It wasn’t easy getting from the airport into Amsterdam. I began thinking my hitchhiking through Europe might not be a good idea. I only had two months to travel. At the hostel I stayed in the first night, I heard I could get a Eurail pass at their office in Utrecht. Normally, the ticket…
The Chase – Raccoons At Night
I used to babysit for a family that lived up the street on the corner. I was around eleven, or twelve. Johnny, the dad, would often take me hunting. He had dogs. Hunting, and fishing, was a way of life in my neck of the woods. It was depended on as a food source by…
Bear Encounter On Mt. Marcy, New York
A friend of mine lived near Mt. Marcy in New York. It is the highest point in the state at 5344′. I thought that while I was visiting, my dog, Kink, and I, would do an overnight camping trip to the summit, camp for the night at a campground on another trail going down the…
Rare Tornado In West Virginia
We were on the last leg of our round trip across the country heading back to Cape Cod when a rare tornado in West Virginia caught up with us. In Mississippi, we ran into a springtime storm system tracking northeast that the radio weather folks promised to bring tornadoes. As we moved deeper into the…